第七届全国中学生英语基础知识竞赛

第七届全国中学生英语基础知识竞赛

NATIONAL ENGLISH BASIC KNOWLEDGE COMPETITION

第一部分：听力 （共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分） 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What are the speakers doing? A. Checking the homework.

B. Making transportation presentation. C. Having a math’s class.

2. Where does this conversation most probably take place? A. At the man’s house. B. At a theatre. C. A gas station. 3. What dose the man mean?

A. His brother is coming to celebrate his own birthday. B. His brother never forgets his own birthday. C. His brother will give him a birthday present. 4. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The bus was put off because the road was blocked. B. The bus has broken down and will not arrived.

C. The bus was seriously damaged in a terrible accident. 5. What does the man mean?

A. He took Bill to the hospital. B. He forgot to call the woman.

C. He didn’t know which hospital Bill was in. 第二节 （共15小题；每题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. Who is the woman buying the gift for? A. Her son B. Her brother C. Her nephew.

7. How much does the woman want to spend on the gift?

A. Twenty dollars B. Thirty dollars C. Forty dollars 8. What does the woman decide to buy in the end?

A. A chess set B. A pen and a pencil C. A handball set 听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。 9. Who is Pat calling?

A．Her teacher B．Her friend C．Her cousin． 10．Why is Pat calling?

A．To invite Anna to lunch．

B．To ask Anna to return her dictionary． C．To borrow a French dictionary from Anna． 11．Who is Pat talking to?

A．Anna's boyfriend． B．Tom． C．A stranger to her． 听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12.What is the main subject of the conversation?

A. The woman’s injured knee. B. The man”s injured foot. C. Michigan Team. 13. What sport are they talking about?

A. Basketball. B. Football. C. Baseball. 14. What is going to happen?

A. lowa will rank No.1 in the country.

B. There will be a match between Michigan and lowa on Saturday.

C.There will be a tough game between the speakers’ team and Michigan.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15.What was the woman’s feeling after the man arrived? A. Sad. B. Relieved. C. Anxious.

16. What were the students doing when the man arrived in class?

A. Taking an exam. B. Drawing graphs. C. Giving presentations. 17. What do you know from the conversation?

A. The man and the woman would still have chance to give their presentation. B. They couldn’t give their presentation because of the man’s being late. C. The man was late because he lived too far away from school. 听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。 18.How long has Art been retired?

A. About twelve years. B. About five years. C. About eight years. 19. What was Art just before his retirement? A. A painter. B. A golfer. C. An advisor. 20. What is Art’s main activity now?

Painting pictures. B. Playing golf. C. Making glass.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中．选出最佳选项，并将答案写在题后的答题表中。

A

Pakistani youth activist Malala Yousafzai,17,was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, October 10 shortly after she made a famous speech. She is the youngest Noble winner in history. Malala shares the prize with Kailash Satyarthi,

a 60-year-old man from India who has helped lead a movement to end child slavery around the world. Both winners were recognized for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.

Malala Yousafzai has never been ordinary. When she was just 11 years old, she started blogging about the Taliban’s takeover of her hometown of Mingora, in northwestern Pakistan. Taliban members follow an extreme version of Islam, and believe young girls like Malala should not go to school. Classrooms throughout the Swat district of Pakistan, where Malala was living, were closed for several months. Malala spoke publicly about her desire to go back to school.“All I want is an education,”she said.

When the Pakistan government regained control, Malala was able to return to class. She continued to blog and speak out about girls’ right to education. But on October 9,2012, the Taliban tried to silence her. A gunman boarded her school bus and shot her on the left side of her forehead. Malala survived, and showed great courage and optimism during her long recovery .During this time, she became a symbol of the struggle for girls’ right all over the world.

Nine months after she was shot, she gave that now-famous speech at the United Nations. “They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed,” she said. “And then, out of that silence came thousands of voices...Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage was born.” 21. What do we know about Malala Yousafzai?____.

A. She got the 2014 Noble Peace Prize with the help of Kailash Satyarthi. B. She has led a movement to end child slavery worldwide. C. She was honored for her struggle for children’s right. D. She received the 2014 Noble Peace Prize alone. 22. What is the correct order of the events that happened to Malala Yousafzai? _____. A. She won the 2014 Noble Peace Prize.

B. She was shot on the left side of her forehead.

C. She made a now-famous speech at the United Nations. D. She became a symbol of struggle for girls’ rights. E. She blogged about Taliban taking over her hometown.

A.e,d,b,c,a B.a,e,d,b,c C.a,e,b,d,c D.e,b,d,c,a

23.Which of the following can best describe Malala Yousafzai? _____. A. Active and considerate. B. Honest and responsible. C. Fearless and brave. D. Weak and simple-minded. 24.The passage is most probably taken from _____.

A. a news report B. science fiction C. a research paper D. a personal diary

B

The Iron Peacock By Mary Stetson Clarke

Joanna Sprague’s life is upended(颠倒)when her father dies on the voyage that was to take them to a new life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Poor and alone,16-year-old Joanna must summon(鼓起)uncommon courage to survive as a servant in a strange new world.

The Broken Blade By William Durbin

In 1800,13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he would be leaving Montreal to paddle2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre’s father has an accident, Pierre quits school to become a voyager for the North West Company, so his family can survive the winter. It’s hard for Pierre as the youngest in the team. Pierre is miserable. Still he has no choice but to endure the trip to Grand Portage and back.

Stowaway(偷渡者) By Karen Hesse

It is known that in the summer of 1768, Captain James Cook sailed from England, beginning a three-year voyage around the world on a secret mission to discover an unknown continent at the bottom of the globe. What is less known is that a boy named Nicholas Young was a stowaway on that ship. Karen Hesse recreates Cook’s voyage through the eyes of this remarkable boy, creating a fiction journal filled with fierce hurricanes, warring natives, and disease, as Nicholas discovers new lands, incredible creatures, and lifelong friends.

I Am David By Anne Holm

David’s entire 12-year life has spent in a prison camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. With his enemies hot on his heels(紧跟随着),David struggles to cope in this strange new world, where his only resources are a compass, a few pieces of bread, his two aching feet, and some advice to seek refuge(庇护)in Denmark. Is that enough to survive?

25.Who wrote the story about a young girl who has to survive in a strange new world? ____.

A.Anne Holm. B .William Durbin. C. Karen Hesse. D. Mary Stetson Clarke. 26.Which of the following characters has to suffer a lot to help support the family? ____.

A.Joanna Sprague B. Pierre La Page C. Nicholas Young D. David 27.What kind of readers will probably enjoy reading Stowaway ?

A.Those who want to be sailors. B. Those who like delicious food

B.Those who study law at college. D. Those who enjoy climbing mountains. 28.It can be inferred that David is most eager for _____.

A. fame B. money C. freedom D. knowledge

C

If you are sending a text, watching TV or listening to the radio, you may want to stop and give this your full attention. Multi-tasking shrinks(使收缩)the brain, research suggests. A study found that men and women who frequently used several types of technology at the same time had less grey matter(灰质)in a key part of the brain.

University of Sussex researchers said using mobile phones, laptops and other media devices at the same time could be changing the structure of our brains. Worryingly. the part of the brain that shrinks is involved in processing emotion. The finding follows research which has linked multi-tasking with a shortened attention span(跨度),depression, anxiety and lower grades at school.

The researchers began by asking 75 healthy men and women how often they divided their attention between different types of technology. This could mean sending a text message while listening to music and checking email, or speaking on the phone while watching TV and surfing the web.

The volunteers were then given brain scans which showed they had less grey matter in a region called the anterior cingulate cortex(ACC)(前扣带皮质)。The findings didn’t change even when differences in personality were taken into account. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first to make a link between multi-tasking and the structure of the brain.

Research Kep Kee Loh said,“Media multi-tasking id becoming more prevalent(普遍存在的)in our lives today and there is increasing concern about its effects on our cognition(认知)and social-emotional well-being.” He added that more research is needed to prove that multi-tasking shrinks the brain.

Scientists have previously shown brain structure can be changed on long exposure to new environments and experience .Other students have shown that training --such as learning to juggle(玩杂耍)or taxi drives learning the map of London--can increase grey matter in certain parts. Experts have also warned of the harmful effects technology can have on our memory and attention span.

29.According to the research, which of the following results is NOT connected with multi-tasking? ____.

A. Poor performances at school. B. Feeling anxious easily.

B. Being sleepless at night. D. Being unable to concentrate long. 30.We can learn from the passage that ____.

A. 75 healthy volunteers took in the research.

B. the findings are different according to different personalities. C. multi-tasking can reduce body weight and shrink the head. D. multi-tasking has no harmful effects on memory 31.What Kep Kee Loh said shows that people are ____ the effects of media multi-tasking A. insensitive to B. indifferent to C. pleased with D. worried about 32.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage? A. Men and women differ when doing tasks.

B. Findings need to be based on real research. C. Muli-tasking, a good way to make you clever. D. Multi-tasking makes your brain smaller.

D

Common sense goes along way when it comes to learning a country' s proper etiquette(礼节). Here we seek out the advice of users on question and answer site Quora, asking“What should I absolutely not do when visiting your country?”Here

are the rules that surprised us the most. In some cultures, giving the wrong amount of an item can be worse than no present at al1.“Do not give even numbers of flowers as a gift. That's for dead folks,” said Muscovite(俄国人)Katherine Makhalova.“A proper bouquet(花束) will have one, three, five or seven flowers.” Odd-numbers of flowers are given for happy occasions in Russia, while bouquets of two, four, six, twelve or twenty-four stems are often

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